Emery Reves

Emery Reves ( born February 16, 1904 in Bačko Gradište; † October 4, 1981 in Monte Carlo ), Imre Imre Revesz Rosenbaum alias alias was American journalist of Hungarian origin.

The Rosenbaum family came from Ada, a small Hungarian town in the region Backa, now part of Serbia.

Reves studied in Dresden and worked as an employee of the company Odol in Berlin. When the Nazis came to power he moved to Paris and established there a small successful news agency launched its products in newspapers on behalf of Winston Churchill.

He interviewed Churchill and Anthony Eden, so his name was read in the newspapers around the world. Before the occupation of France by the Germans he received through the mediation of Churchill a visa for England and later the British naturalization. He published the memoirs of Churchill, collected a well-known collection of impressionists and late impressionists, for he was regarded as a professional.

After the war he bought Coco Chanel's villa La Pausa in Rocquebrune in southern France, he asked Churchill for holidays and relaxation stays. Among his guests were also Konrad Adenauer, Greta Garbo and the Duke of Windsor. Married Reves was with the American Wendy Reves. His cousin Georg Solti describes it in his memoirs as snobby and sardonic - witty. Without Reves ' support with food and money the lives of relatives in Budapest would have been endangered.

Without approval of the author, he published the book " I Paid Hitler" Fritz Thyssen's, but could attach the handwritten corrections by Thyssen up to chapter 9. The book brought the industrialist and supporter of Hitler, who had sat for the NSDAP in the Reichstag, in the concentration camp, after he had fled via Switzerland to the south of France. There the book by Thyssen in collaboration had been written with Reves and corrected. The Vichy government of unoccupied France delivered from Thyssen. Reves left the book in 1941 in New York appear. Reves was also ghost writer of a second, the controversial book by Hermann Rauschning: Conversations with Hitler. It is unclear which parts of this book come from Reves. Although it is still quoted today, it is most historians to be refuted. So Ian Kershaw Having expressly waived, to use it for his biography of Hitler.

Emery Reves also wrote the book The Anatomy of Peace, published in 1945, which championed the idea of ​​a federal world government. Reves saw internationally valid law as the only way to prevent war. The 1945 newly created United Nations Security Council, so Reves, was not an effective means to maintain world peace because it was more an instrument of power as an instrument of justice. The book was, inter alia, supported by Albert Einstein. The problems raised to the law and its rationale are quite philosophical.

Wendy Reves bequeathed to the common art collection (1400 items ) to the Dallas Museum of Art in a specially built museum wing five rooms of Villa La Pausa has been recreated. The collection consists of furniture and handicrafts mainly French painting from Corot to Pierre Bonnard.

Publications

  • The Anatomy of Peace, 1945
  • Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1997 ISBN 0-292-71201-4
  • Fritz Thyssen: I Paid Hitler, as a ghostwriter and editor: Emery Reves, London 1941
  • Hermann Rauschning: Conversations with Hitler, ghostwriter Emery Reves, ISBN 3-85665-515-8
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